http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=slums Sat, 25 May 2013 06:45:53 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=slums Thu, 09 May 2013 20:53:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6d_1368143598 Baron_Kaz So an 18 year old kid goes off on a teacher, because "teacher isn't doing it right". I literally laughed my pants off when I saw it featured in Fox news and that the youtube video had gone viral. I went to school in India, 70 to 75 students in a class, till the age of 15 when you clear the Secondary School Certificate exams (Grade 1 through 10).80 to 95 students a class in ages 16 and 17 for Higher Secondary Certificate exam (Grades 11 and 12). And then 100 or so per class in First year Engineering college. By the time we hit 2nd year in Engineering, the number had dropped to 35 or so, as most had miserably failed out. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-04/mumbai/29508207_1_engineering-colleges-first-semester-exam-engineering-students And these were not "government run - free" schools. These were bonafide, top tier schools, where you had to either get a 99% or above score to get in, or pay a kings ransom in bribes to enter. In grades 1 to 10, we saw a Chemistry or Physics or Biology laboratory once in 10 years. In grades 11 and 12, it was a god awful mess with violence all around, since Mumbai has too many slums and all the ruffians from the slums would hang out in and around the school, trying to hit on the girls or to force the regular kids to pay them off. The teachers were reasonable. Heavy handed, but reasonable. When we entered Engineering school, things changed. There were no riff-raffs, most kids knew they were in for the toughest time in their lives, and they gave it their best. To give you an idea, you had to score above 99% to be considered for a free seat in top Mumbai Engineering college. Except of course the lower castes got in through affirmative action and the rich bribed their way in through seats reserved for "athletes" (Rahul Gandhi, the Next prime minister of India got admission in through an "Archery" reserved seat). Athletes don't exist in India, take a look at the Indian Olympic medals tally. But even that was not good enough. To give you an example, 1st and 2nd semester each had 8 courses: Basic Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Communication Skills, Math, Engineering Drawing, Computer Programming. And each semester was about 4 and a half months in duration to finish studying text books, which I have found to be the same which are used in Masters degree courses in the US. And this is the first time in their lives that students are touching these topics, topics like Engineering drawing, which is drawing complex 3D perspectives. http://www.tcetmumbai.in/SyllabusAll/FEsemI.pdf And the professors! ROFLOLOLOL. OMG they could barely speak English!! They were the saddest bunch of sadists in the world... they were, everyone of them, short, dark skinned and remarkably ugly, poor in hygiene and dressing sense. And the truth was, they all belonged to lower castes. People who were pushed through affirmative action or some other bullshit to complete a 4 year degree in 8 years or so. Not kidding, not making it up, but this was the truth. (Ask your Indian co-worker!) They all had HUGE chips on their shoulders... and they made life miserable for us. How in the world can you teach Engineering in English, when you are unable to compose a simple sentence in English while talking. For example : Pointing to a problem in the book, making a student stand up, and saying "How is you?!!" when he really wants to ask, "How would you solve this problem?" "Cache memory" was pronounced "KA - che memory" the "KA - che" similar to the "KA - ching" sound we make to imitate a register at a store. We hated them!! We hated them more than anything else, just like they hated us. For them, we were the things they could never hope to become. We were taller, lighter skinned, more Caucasoid featured compared to their black/mongoloid ones. Our parents had money for our clothes, cars and cell phones. They burned... and they did what ever they could to make it miserable for us. The biggest joke in the college was the grading system. Each course has 4 elements: 100 points for a written exam, 50 for practicals and 25 for "term work" and 25 for "viva". You have to pass every single "element" to be deemed you passed that course. Written exam : Closed book exam. No multiple choice or true/false bull shit. Hard core math based calculations. Only basic scientific calculators without any kind of memory, allowed. Practicals = Laboratory experiments Term work = writing meaningless journals of experiments and "assignments" which were the same since for ever, and we literally copied from journals some poor soul had written 5 years ago and had been since handed down generation to generation. Viva = oral examination. So in effect, 100 points in the written exams were the only ones where the student could really show off his mettle. the remaining 100 points (practicals, term work and viva) was completely at the teacher's mercy, since it was completely at the teacher's discretion. At the tender mercies of ugly, jealous, sadistic freaks!! Viva was public humiliation time. The sadists would bunch around a table and sadists from other colleges would be invited as "Impartial outsiders" to conduct the "viva", when it was actually all in cahoots. I remember at one Viva, one particular Sadist from Father Agnel Engineering college, a Christian guy, forgot his name... that bastard looks at me in my face and says "These teachers you have at your school are so wonderful. So you left your 'Digital Circuits' lecture from here to attend a math lecture at a private tutoring place one day?" (I was taking private tutoring to actually learn the courses which the morons at the school could not teach, and one particular day I had to leave the Digital Circuit class because the tutor had scheduled an urgent review of the math course work). I said "Yes I did!" ; He asked, "So you think you will pass in Math?" I said "Yes!" (I was a top ranker in the school) "What about Digital Circuits?" "Yes I will pass that too!" I answered. He laughed out aloud "So you think you will pass in BOTH courses?". But the teachers from my school didn't laugh. They whispered to him about my past "record" of passing every exam at first attempt and my pristine record. The sadist bristled... "Ok, so here is the deal! I will ask one question and if you answer me correctly, I will pass you in this viva and if not, I will fail you." (He did not give me a choice whether I wanted this or not). "Since you are such a Math lover, what was the 5th question in the math question paper that you took this semester?" How the fuck does this have anything to do with "Digital Circuits" for which i was taking the viva? What the fuck was this, but a grown sadist taking it out on a young man and trying to ruin his life for nothing more than petty jealousy??? I have a remarkable memory, and I actually remembered the exact question from the Math paper and I answered him. My balls were in my mouth, but I answered the sadist who was looking to ruin my future and trying to fail me. After countless nights of staying up, working my ass off, just because his fellow sadists hated me, an adult sadist was trying to ruin the life of a bright young man. But I fucking knew the answer! And as he looked it up and confirmed it, I grinned. His eyes flashed fire. But even then he failed me in the viva. And if you fail in any of the 4 criteria in a course : written or practical or term work or viva, you are still considered a "fail". But thankfully the Central university which handles grading and deciding whether students will pass or not, gave me grace points to pass that 25 marks Viva. And this was but one out of millions of stories I faced personally everyday, and so did my fellow students. Compare that to what Jeff Bliss faces today... We survived, not because of anything, but our own will and determination to complete our studies. Because we had our families at our backs 100% of the time, and they threw every resource they had at us, to help us. And because we knew, this was the only way out of the dingy shit hole that luck had some how birthed us in to. I and 100% of my class mates from Somaiya Engineering college, Mumbai are now in the US or UK or Western Europe. Almost to a man, everyone got their masters degrees and some PhDs. And OMG, studying in the West was like a dream! They even had professors who took time to explain stuff. ROFLOLOL. Don't believe me? Google K.J.Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai. Check their cut off percentage for admissions at First year engineering. And of course ask your Indian colleagues and friends. PS: The dog in the picture is my beloved puppy: Manfred, wearing my sunglasses. :) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6d_1368143598 Baron_Kaz Education in India, thoughts after watching Jeff Bliss. India, Education Tue, 07 May 2013 11:40:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=551_1367940761 Sini Mini This all went down when police thought they had identified Marcio 'The Mathematician' Pereira - one of Rio Di Janeiro's most notorious drug traffickers, who shifts drugs through four different favelas - in the Korea region of Rio, which is located in the west of the city. Some road cops noticed a suspect who looked like the wanted man and called in the chopper to take a closer look. Which doesn't really make sense because surely the road cops could have just gone over there and busted him, but I guess it is way more firepower and it made this video so I'm OK with their tactics, sure. Anyway, instead of just following the suspect or getting the road cops to arrest him, the chopper decided to open fire on the car and embark on a high speed pursuit of it around the favela, which is completely awesome especially as it's at night so it's all filmed in night vision. Or thermal imaging or something, I'm not sure what the correct terminology is here. You don't see it here but eventually the speeding car stopped and got surrounded by cops and random people from the favela but somehow Marcio managed to get away. Don't worry though, he was found dead in a parked car less than 24 hours. Not sure who got the drop on him - it could have been the chopper or another rival baller from the slums. We'll probably never know. You can check out the video of the awesome car chase below, it really is something special. Oh yeah, and Brazilian police are now investigating the incident after it was released to TV stations on Sunday to determine whether or not the chopper used excessive force in their pursuit of the criminal. Hmm. What do you think!?-sickchirpse.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=551_1367940761 Sini Mini Insane Shootout Between Brazilian Cops In A Helicopter And A Drug Dealer Trying To Escape In A Speeding Car Through The Favelas Of Rio Di Janeiro favela, cocaine, i say coke you say caine, druglord, escape, dead, helicopter, chain gun, Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:36:03 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=509_1365625418 sagan It looks nasty, but i felt safe there. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=509_1365625418 sagan bicycle rickshaw ride in Jaipur <span class="highlight">slums</span> (India) india, indian, suburbs, slums, rickshaw, ride, dark, rajastan, jaipur Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:01:04 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3e5_1363273097 grimghost Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen pope, taking the name Francis. Bergoglio is the first Jesuit pope, and the first non-European pontiff in over 1300 years. Press TV's Correspondent in Italy Max Civili has the story. http://www.presstv.ir The election of Pope Francis, previously Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has resurfaced a decades-old controversy surrounding the kidnappings of two Jesuit priests. Bergoglio was a high-ranking official in the Society of Jesus of Argentina when a military junta was installed in the South American country in 1976. According to the Los Angeles Times, priests Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics were kidnapped in May of that year by the navy. "They surfaced five months later, drugged and seminude, in a field," the Times reported. A 2005 lawsuit accused Bergoglio of unspecified involvement in the abductions. Reuters explains that "the military government secretly jailed for their work in poor neighborhoods." A spokesman for Bergoglio called the claims "old slander." Reuters has more details: According to "The Silence," a book written by journalist Horacio Verbitsky, Bergoglio withdrew his order's protection of the two men after they refused to quit visiting the slums, which ultimately paved the way for their capture. Verbitsky's book is based on statements by Orlando Yorio, one of the kidnapped Jesuits, before he died of natural causes in 2000. Both of the abducted clergymen survived five months of imprisonment. "History condemns him. It shows him to be opposed to all innovation in the Church and above all, during the dictatorship, it shows he was very cozy with the military," Fortunato Mallimacci, the former dean of social sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, once said. Those who defend Bergoglio say there is no proof behind these claims and, on the contrary, they say the priest helped many dissidents escape during the military junta's rule. Per the Associated Press, "Yorio accused Bergoglio of effectively handing them over to the death squads by declining to tell the regime that he endorsed their work. Jalics refused to discuss it after moving into seclusion in a German monastery." Bergoglio discussed the incident with Sergio Rubin, his authorized biographer. More from AP: Both men were freed after Bergoglio took extraordinary, behind-the-scenes action to save them, including persuading dictator Jorge Videla's family priest to call in sick so that Bergoglio could say Mass in the junta leader's home, where he privately appealed for mercy. His intervention likely saved their lives, but Bergoglio never shared the details until Rubin interviewed him for the 2010 biography. Bergoglio told Rubin that he regularly hid people on church property during the dictatorship, and once gave his identity papers to a man with similar features, enabling him to escape across the border. But all this was done in secret, at a time when church leaders publicly endorsed the junta and called on Catholics to restore their "love for country" despite the terror in the streets. per Huffington Post http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3e5_1363273097 grimghost Mario Bergoglio chosen new pope despite kidnappings Pope,Vatican city,new pope,kidnappings Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:23:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=971_1363256503 jamesclarke1974 14 March 2013 Francis is the first ever pope from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernised Argentina's conservative Roman Catholic Church. Known until Wednesday as Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis is respected as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires cardinals enjoyed. In the past, the 76-year-old pontiff often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital. He accused fellow church leaders of hypocrisy, and forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes. "Jesus teaches us another way. Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit," the then-Cardinal Bergoglio told Argentina's priests last year. His legacy as a cardinal includes his efforts to repair the reputation of a church that lost many followers by failing to openly challenge Argentina's murderous 1976-83 dictatorship. He also worked to recover the church's traditional political influence in society, but his outspoken criticism of President Cristina Kirchner could not stop her from imposing socially liberal measures, from gay marriage and adoption to free contraceptives. He came close to becoming pope in 2005, reportedly gaining the second-highest total in several rounds of voting before bowing out in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI. Initially trained as a chemist, Bergoglio taught literature, psychology, philosophy and theology before taking over as Buenos Aires archbishop in 1998. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=971_1363256503 jamesclarke1974 Pope Francis: Profile Of New Catholic Leader Pope, Francis I, Argentina Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:27:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=802_1362945082 no compromise truth In order to shed light in the plight of Hong Kong's poor, the NGO Society for Community Organization has released these photos that show how the lower spectrum of society survives in the city with one of the 5th. most expensive rent per square metre worldwide. I found this on the net and thought it would be nice to share. PS: Square feet 28ft^2 = 2.6013 m^2 A family eats a meal together in their small apartment in Hong Kong. (Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex USA) An elderly person sits in her home in the urban slums of Hong Kong. (Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex USA) Children do homework while their parents go about their daily routine in their family apartment the urban slums of Hong Kong. (Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex USA) An elderly person prepares a meal in her apartment in the urban slums of Hong Kong. (Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex USA) A single man with a low income sleeps in his apartment in the urban slums of Hong Kong. (Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex USA) An unemployed man eats his dinner. His apartment is 28 square feet. (Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex USA) A man does chores in his apartment. (Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex USA) An elderly man living in his home in the urban slums of Hong Kong. (Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex USA) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=802_1362945082 no compromise truth Cramped living conditions of Hong Kong's poor Hong Kong, appartments, living conditions, Chungking Express Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:09:53 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=989_1362521320 tubezzz CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader's 14-year rule of the South American country, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech. The flamboyant 58-year-old leader had undergone four operations in Cuba for a cancer that was first detected in his pelvic region in mid-2011. His last surgery was on Dec. 11 and he had not been seen in public since. "It's a moment of deep pain," Maduro, accompanied by senior ministers, said, his voice choking. Chavez easily won a new 6-year term at an election in October and his death will devastate millions of supporters who adored his charismatic style, anti-U.S. rhetoric and oil-financed policies that brought subsidized food and free health clinics to long-neglected slums. Detractors, however, saw his one-man style, gleeful nationalizations and often harsh treatment of opponents as evidence of an egotistical dictator whose misplaced statist economics wasted a historic bonanza of oil revenues. Chavez's death paves the way for a new election that will test whether his socialist "revolution" can live on without his dominant personality at the helm. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=989_1362521320 tubezzz Hugo Chavez Is Dead Hugo Chavez is dead Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:14:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97d_1340063319 SSSox88 Better helps one understand why things are the way they are in Rio's favelas. The kid who's crying really is just acting. He's so convincing it's almost hard to tell. Almost all of the kids in this film were not actors and they actually lived in the slums where this was shot. If you haven't seen this, I highly recommend you do. It truly is a masterpiece. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97d_1340063319 SSSox88 Fernando Meirelles's City of God-The Horrors of Life in the <span class="highlight">Slums</span> of Rio de Janeiro (Disturbing and really difficult to watch) Rio, Slums, favelas, City, of, God, Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:44:20 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fe6_1270057033 Vaudeville_Villain By Jeffrey Feldman March 30, 2010 --- Concentrations of homeless people are nothing new in America, but recent BBC and Los Angeles Times reports depict a rising trend of shanty slums, such as a "city" of newly homeless people living in tents near the Ontario airport in Los Angeles. If you recall your Steinbeck, the residents of the 20c Hoovervilles were largely tenant farmers thrown off their farms by the owners, who in turn tried mechanized farming to bring down costs and break even. These displaced farmers migrated West where they became agricultural day laborers and settled into shanty camps. The California tent slum depicted in the BBC report is quite different, because they are not migrant workers, so much as locals who have lost their homes. It is hard to tell if the newly dispossessed are all the victims of the subprime market. More likely, the tent slum population is a mix of new and old homelessness -- perhaps with a few migrant workers in the mix. I do not know if there is a technical point at which a tent city becomes a slum -- a boundary of some sort that gets crossed in terms of population density or length of time in existence or total acreage. But the Los Angeles Times reports that the police are handing out wrist bands to make sure that only locals take up residence in the tent camp by the airport. Non locals have to get out. Passing out armbands to make sure only locals get into the camp has to be crossing a boundary of some kind. And it is not a good one to cross. Whatever the actual demographics, the images and the stories are heartbreaking. If ever there was a reason to let go of market orthodoxy, and to re-embrace the American spirit of making things better by the most pragmatic means possible -- this is it. Make it work better, period. No ideology; no grand theories about freedom from government; just come together to help people before we lose a generation to this mounting economic tragedy. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fe6_1270057033 Vaudeville_Villain Tent <span class="highlight">Slums</span> Spring Up in America USA,recession,slums,homeless,tent city Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:24:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7e1_1254338132 Thickhanger A video game especially designed for people living in the poor slums of Africa. The game is designed to teach something that should never have to be taught. These are sad lessons to have to learn. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7e1_1254338132 Thickhanger A Video Game Especially Designed For People In African <span class="highlight">Slums</span> news,entertainment,Thickhanger,video,game,Africa,slums,crime,murder,hostage,guns,robbery,law,training, Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:46:40 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=934_1233102870 jdischord Raw video:Recently recorded with a hidden camera.....footage shows how easily machine gun wielding dealers control the slums of Sao Paulo,Brazil.At one point you see some kids pass a glue bag too. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=934_1233102870 jdischord Heavily armed drug dealers control Brazillian <span class="highlight">slums</span>....raw video. Heavily armed drug dealers control Brazillian slums,raw video,Sao Paulo,Brazil Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:48:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=177_1344782212 KingSize0 Rio police is ambushed by drug traffickers in a Favela. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=177_1344782212 KingSize0 Police Officer Shot in Rio <span class="highlight">Slums</span> brazil, brasil, police, policia, officer, shot, rio de janeiro, favela, slums, ghetto, drug, traffickers